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Overwatch opens up all heroes for final closed beta weekend

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Gotta play them all! If you've been itching to try out any specific Overwatch hero, this weekend might be your chance. On Friday and...

Landmark ups prop limit, adds durability, and collapses build UI

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While certainly not as hefty as the one that introduced the mega claims, Landmark's latest patch introduces a slew of combat, building, prop, harvesting,...
Das Tal get money for college

Das Tal’s investors give the game more funding

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Those of us with a fondness for MMOs have had to learn exactly how expensive these games are over the past few years. The...

Age of Conan launches Pit Master’s Arena, shelves crafting revamp, plans F2P improvements

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Funcom today pushed live a new update for Age of Conan called The Pit Master's Arena. "Fight exotic and deadly beasts for fame and...
Tasty.

Blizzard to WoW testers: Class orders will not be like garrison missions

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If you've paid any attention to World of Warcraft during its present expansion cycle, you are probably aware that Garrisons have not exactly been...
Um.

The Division encounters bugs with loot and characters after patch 1.1

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Yesterday was patch day for The Division, meaning fans got to hurry to the game flush with excitement, eager to download the patch and...

Character transfers in SWTOR were (temporarily?) free last night

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Our embedded reporter in Star Wars: The Old Republic -- me! -- discovered first-hand last night that character transfers had been made free for an unknown reason. This...

Black Desert deploys minor patch for pets, battlegrounds, and bugs

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Easter is over for Black Desert. The servers returned earlier this morning with a weekly patch ending the Easter events, though related NPC quests...

WildStar crosses factional barriers, mulls new class/race combos

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What's brewing in WildStar's labs these days? Only a whole vat of changes, that's what. As a result of Carbine's first DevConnect forum survey, the...

TERA’s Secrets & Shadows update arrives next month

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This should take some of the sting out of those layoffs: En Masse says TERA has a major update on the way for the...
Come and get your PLEX.

EVE Online plans to add dailies with skill point rewards

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Of all the ways to encourage players to engage with an MMO, two of the most controversial are daily quests and login rewards. Used in everything from World of Warcraft...
Wish you could actually consider being here.

Blade & Soul’s next event is all about random prizes for purchase

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Spring is here, and Blade & Soul is celebrating with a new set of expensive treasures for players. From April 13th, players will be...
Sure, who cares.

Like skintone, Rust’s character gender is determined by Steam ID

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Remember back when Rust added new skin tones and other secondary attributes that players didn't get to choose? Because the game just implemented another...

Final Fantasy XIV producer letter pokes and prods at Patch 3.3 and 3.4 features

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Stop the presses, go home from school early, and call off from work -- the latest Final Fantasy XIV producer letter is here. As...

MU Legends offers up an eight-minute trailer

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Are you looking forward to checking out MU Legend? You might have a long wait: Although the prequel to MU Online is planned to...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 60: Nostalrius down

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Justin and Bree discuss Nostalrius, TERA, Black Desert, SWTOR, DDO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, with mailbag questions on Kickstarters and Tabula Rasa.

Crowfall Q&A talks about Eternal Kingdoms and next playable archetypes

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The Crowfall community has no end of questions for the ArtCraft team, and ArtCraft has no end of time to answer them. Actually, today...
Ride or... um, actually, just ride. Riding is your goal here.

Skyforge’s Reaper’s’ Revenge adds new mount customization, vector stats

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Mounts are pretty important in any game that offers them; they get you from place to place, they often provide assorted benefits, and they...

Spellcheck won’t help you in TERA’s new Seek & Spell event

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Live with TERA's maintenance patch today is an contest-slash-event En Masse is calling Seek & Spell, so: Dictionaries at the ready! For the next three...

Blade & Soul’s Shattered Empire update arrives on April 27

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Hope you weren't too attached to that empire because Blade & Soul done gone shattered it. The wuxia action MMO is preparing to bring Update...